Category Archives: Hardware

Awesome, powerful, small Linux machine.

Posted on June 7, 2011 by dale

Found this on the Make Zine site, more info on Geek.com site or the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. Awesome little machine with rather impressive specifications. Provisional specification 700MHz ARM11 256MB of SDRAM OpenGL ES 2.0 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode Composite … Continue reading →

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Drowned my Mouse – Autopsy + Repair

Posted on June 28, 2010 by dale

This afternoon I drowned my mouse with a cup of tea and killed it. The mouse was a Microsoft Wireless 4000 Notebook Optical Mouse which I’ve had for over 2 years and liked a lot… Electronics + tea don’t mix As … Continue reading →

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Yellow Dots – Follow on about the Xerox story.

Posted on June 18, 2010 by dale

After yesterdays post about Xerox making copies of documents for the CIA during the cold war a friend sent me a link to this site (SeeingYellow). For those of you who don’t know about this there is a conspiracy theory … Continue reading →

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On Demand Book Printer

Posted on May 11, 2010 by dale

I found this via MakeZine but I think its one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen. It’s a standard Laser printer and what looks like a Canon Inkjet printer combined with a fancy bit of mechanics to hold, … Continue reading →

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Super Secret Project Pt 2

Posted on December 22, 2009 by dale

As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife). Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to … Continue reading →

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SGI personal Supercomputer

Posted on September 30, 2009 by dale

SGI, previously (or better) known as Silicon Graphics Incoporated have released a “personal” supercomputer. It can go up to 80 cores with up to 1 Terabyte of RAM. I can think of plenty of uses for this, although I’m guessing … Continue reading →

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Howto Debug an odd problem – “Load Datalogic Scanner XML Settings Failure!”

Posted on September 4, 2009 by dale

I had an odd problem today with a USB barcode scanner and its OPOS driver. The scanner in question is a DataLogic 2200VS USB scanner and I’m using its OPOS Driver (USBScanner is the OPOS Device name) on a Windows … Continue reading →

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Get a Samsung SCX 4200 Working On Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on June 21, 2009 by dale

I have a Samsung SCX-4200 Printer/Scanner it works rather nicely and I like it alot, even though I don’t use it often. Tonight I plugged it into my Ubunut machine and it printed first time, with no setups. Unfortunately the … Continue reading →

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Disk Latency from Shouting

Posted on January 24, 2009 by dale

Some guys from the Fishworks project over at Sun discovered something rather interesting, that shouting at a disk array while the array is in use can cause latency on the disks. This does actually make sense as any vibrations can … Continue reading →

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Website for picking Servers

Posted on January 16, 2009 by dale

I’ve been tasked with the job of finding a new server for a client, normally I love this kind of job but today its really not going particularly well. The problem? I know what the client wants/needs but explaining that … Continue reading →

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